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  • The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus book cover
  • The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus book cover
  • The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt by Albert Camus book cover
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

by Albert Camus

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Revolt, revolution, and their limits

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Revolt, revolution, and their limits

Albert Camus examines revolt as both a fundamental human response to existence and a force expressed through historical uprisings. The essay connects that broad philosophical question to political change, including the French Revolution, and considers how revolutionary movements can give way to tyranny. Its scope joins reflection on human nature with a survey of modern political history, making the book a sustained inquiry into the tensions between resistance and power. This edition is translated from French by Anthony Bower.

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  • Readers interested in Camus’s philosophical writing on revolt and human nature.
  • Readers exploring modern political thought and the history of revolution.
  • Readers seeking an essay connecting existential questions with political upheaval.

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Revolt and human natureRevolution and political powerThe French RevolutionTyranny

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Book overview

By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.

For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny.

Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.
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